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Jurassic bivalve biogeography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

A. Hallam
A. Hallam*
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Department of Geological Sciences, University of Birmingham, England
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Abstract

An analysis of the geographic and stratigraphic distribution of nearly 200 Jurassic bivalve genera leads to a number of new discoveries. Similarities between regions reached a maximum in the middle of the period, while the percentage of endemism correspondingly decreased. Diversity increased through the Lower Jurassic to a level which remained more or less stable from Middle Jurassic times onwards, while the origination rate shows the opposite trend. Extinction rate increased early in the period to a maximum in the Pliensbachian and fell thereafter to a low value until the Tithonian, which is marked by a sharp rise. The overall taxonomic composition of the fauna in terms of orders remained substantially stable throughout the period. The relationship with facies is discussed and three major ecological groups distinguished: marginal marine (euryhaline), shallow neritic and deep neritic. Certain pterioids have a very wide distribution and the order as a whole has a significantly higher proportion of cosmopolitan to endemic genera than any other order; the hippuritoids and trigonioids have the highest proportion of endemics. Five faunal provinces are distinguished, and the dominant control on distribution considered to be sea level. Times of high sea level were marked by widespread distribution of taxa and low endemism. High extinction rates were provoked both by regression (in the Tithonian) and by a sharp rise of sea level in the Toarcian, marked by the widespread onset of anaerobic or near-anaerobic conditions in many epicontinental seas. Some latitudinal control is recognised, notably for the hippuritoids and other stenotopic thick-shelled genera, which are confined to low latitudes.

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Paleobiology , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , Winter 1977 , pp. 58 - 73
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